When it comes to homelessness and affordable housing, many of us assume the solution is easy: simply increase the supply of social housing. However, what if public money could do a better job of getting low-income families into housing by using the private rental market?
It just might be that housing for the homeless could be delivered faster, at less cost, and more fairly. It is time that Ontario considered portable rental vouchers, or allowances, for low-income families in need of proper shelter.
Public anger erupted this past summer when a few violent encounters between homeless people and passersby had tragic, widely publicized consequences. Unfortunately, little of the public anger was redirected toward public policy solutions to the underlying problem: Low income earners who lack housing and the means to attain it.
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